celandine | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort |
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(noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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(noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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(verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
(verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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(adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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(noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
(noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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(noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
celecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Celebrex |
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celeriac | (noun) thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant | Synonyms: celery root |
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(noun) grown for its thickened edible aromatic root | Synonyms: Apium graveolens rapaceum, celery root, knob celery, root celery, turnip-rooted celery |
celerity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
celesta | (noun) a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard | - |
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celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
(adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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celiac | (adjective) of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen | Synonyms: coeliac |
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(adjective) belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease | - |
celibacy | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: chastity, sexual abstention |
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(noun) an unmarried status | - |
celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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(noun) an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity | - |
celiocentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis | - |
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celioma | (noun) an abdominal tumor | - |
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celioscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of the abdomen through the abdominal wall | - |
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cell | (noun) (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals | - |
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(noun) a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction | Synonyms: electric cell |
(noun) a room where a prisoner is kept | Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell |
(noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cubicle |
(noun) any small compartment | - |
(noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cellphone, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
(noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cadre |
cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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(noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
(noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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(noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
cellaret | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: minibar |
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cellblock | (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: ward |
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cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
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cello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: violoncello |
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cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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cellphone | (noun) a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | Synonyms: cell, cellular phone, cellular telephone, mobile phone |
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cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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(adjective) relating to cells | - |
cellularity | (noun) the state of having cells | - |
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cellulite | (noun) lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. | - |
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cellulitis | (noun) an inflammation of body tissue (especially that below the skin) characterized by fever and swelling and redness and pain | - |
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celluloid | (adjective) artificial as if portrayed in a film | Synonyms: synthetic |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: cinema, film |
(noun) highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics | - |
cellulose | (noun) a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers | - |
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cellulosic | (noun) a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) | - |
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cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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celom | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celoma, coelom |
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celoma | (noun) a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity | Synonyms: celom, coelom |
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celtuce | (noun) leaves having celery-like stems eaten raw or cooked | - |
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(noun) lettuce valued especially for its edible stems | Synonyms: Lactuca sativa asparagina, stem lettuce |